Gambling Addiction & Recovery Support Group
Compulsive gambling is an urge or addiction to gamble despite harmful negative consequences or a desire to stop. A preferred term among many professionals is problem gambling, as few people described by the term experience true compulsions in the clinical sense of the word. Problem gambling often is defined by whether harm is experienced by the gambler or others rather...
I am hoping that this will be my last "fourth" day. As a recovering pathological gambler, that is all that I expect from myself - recovery one day at a time. I am proud of myself for that. What has helped me get through the last few days is watching youtube videos on gambling addiction. I have viewed and listened to other recovering gamblers and their tragic stories. It really helps me since the time does not always work out for me to attend gamblers anonymous meetings. I am also working on being aware of other addictions since I heard that often when one gives up one addiction, another addiction becomes a subsstitute for that one.
I'm glad you're here with us. Your 4th day, congratulations! Keep going, friend, they add up one day at a time.
YouTube stories do help, writing out your own "goodbye" to gambling is a way to make the reasons why you want to quit more concrete, a good description of the pain gambling has caused can make this goodbye letter a powerful tool to reread when we have an urge. Mine still works, over two years later. Hang in there.